Contribution
תְּרוּמָהStrong’s H8641terumah (te-ru-mah)
Appears in 63 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Terumah is the Hebrew word usually translated “contribution of”, “contribution” and “contributions”. It appears in 63 verses of the Old Testament.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.”
Meaning
- Contribution, offeringa heave offering · any offering · an offering to God · an offering (of grain, money, etc) · contribution
How it's translated
- contribution of 24
- the contribution 15
- a contribution 13
- and contribution of 3
- contributions 2
- contributions your 2
- of contribution of 2
- contribution my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 16
- Ezekiel 14
- Exodus 12
- Leviticus 6
- Nehemiah 4
- Deuteronomy 3
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:3And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
- Exodus 29:27And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
- Exodus 29:28And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
- Exodus 30:13This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
- Exodus 30:14Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
- Exodus 30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
All 63 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
תְּרוּמָה terumah · contribution
1) contribution, offering 1a) a heave offering 1b) any offering 1c) an offering to God 1d) an offering (of grain, money, etc) 1e) contribution
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “contribution” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONTRIBUTION, noun
- The act of giving to a common stock, or in common with others; the act of lending a portion of power or influence to a common purpose; the payment of each mans share of some common expense.
- That which is given to a common stock or purpose, either by an individual or by many.
- In a military sense, impositions paid by a frontier country, to secure themselves from being plundered by the enemys army; or impositions upon a country in the power of an enemy, which are levied under various pretenses, and for various purposes, usually for the support of the army.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.